Barrel-making machine



(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1.

M. E. BEASLEY,& G., J. G. & M. 0. REHPUSS'. BARREL MAKING MAGHINE.

No. 380,976. PatentedApr. 10, 1888.

FYGLJ.

N u, I

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

M. E. B EASLEY 8v G., J. G. &-1V[. O. REH-PUSSf BARREL MAKING MACHINE.

No. 380,976. Patented Apr. 10, 1888.

j mmy/20.7

Wit es N PETERS Pholo-Uthagraphur. wman mn, n. a

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

M. E. BEASLEY & J. (L8; M. 0. REHPUSS.

BARREL MAKING'MAOHINE.

No. 380,976. PatentedApr. 10, 1888.

N. PETERS. FholwLflhogmphzr, Wnshinglun, n a

Unit-inn STATES PATENT @lFlFllCEO MARIA E. BEASLEY, GEORGE REHFUSS, J. GEORGE REHFUSS, AND MARTIN O. REHFUSS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS' TO THE AMERICAN BARREL AND STAVE COMPANY, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

BARRELMIVHAKING MACHIINE.

$PI-3CIIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,976, dated April 10, 1888.

Application filed October 27, 1887. Serial No. 253,522. (No model.) I

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MARIA E. BEASLEY, GEORGE REHEUss, J. GEORGE REHEUss, and MARTIN O. REHFUss, all citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Making Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improve- I0 ments in the manufacture of barrels by machinery, the object of our improvements being to facilitate the operations which intervene between the shaping of the staves and the setting up of the staves into barrel form, and with this object in View we have devised certain combinations of mechanism for effecting the heating or steaming of the staves, the bending of the same, the maintenance of the staves in a bent condition while they are beingfed from the bender to the setting-up machine, and the for mation of the bung-hole in one of the staves while it is in transit.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of part of the machinery embodying our invention; Fig. l a similar View of another part of the same. Fig. 2 is a plan view of that portion of the machine shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line mm, Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 are de- 0 tached-views of parts of the machine on an enlarged scale; Figs. 6, 7, and 8, diagrainsillustrating the operation of the stavebender Fig. 9, an enlarged transverse section of the staveieedway, and Fig. 10 a view illustrating a modification of the same.

The machine has two stave feedways, one for the straight staves and one for the staves after they are bent, the first feedway consisting of opposite slotted or grooved guides 1 and the second staveway having end guide or bearing bars, 2, and a central bar, 10.

The first stave-feedway is in the present instance on a somewhat higher plane than the second, and between these feedways is inter- 5 posed a bending-bed, 3, so that the staves may be fed from the first way onto said bendingbed, then bent by the action of a die, 4, and then fed onto the second way.

The guides l, forming the first stave-fcedway,

are extended into and through the casing 5 of a suitable steam-box, through which the staves are traversed by means of studs 6 onan endless chain, 7, which passes around a sprocketwheel, 8, at each end .of the steam-box.

The staves are fed into ahopper or receptacle, 9, and the bottom stave of the pile is at the proper time pushed from the receptacle into the lower front end of the guides 1 beneath the chain 7, the discharge of the stave from the receptacle being effected by a sliding 6o pusher, 11, connected by a rod, 12, to a pivoted arm, 13, connected by a rod, 14, to a pivoted arm, 15, a stud on which engages with a cam, 16, carried by a counter-shaft, 17, the latter having at one side of the machine a spurwheel, 18, which gears into a spur-pinion, 19,

on the driving-shaft of the machine, said shaft being provided with a suitable belt-pulley, 20.

' At the rear end of the steam-box the lower guides, 1, are curved, so as to be concentric 7c with the endless chain, whereby the staves are carried up by the chain as it passes around the sprocket-wheel and pass into and through the upper portion of the steambox.

As the staves issue from the steam-box they are acted upon by pivoted fingers 21, carried by opposite sliding bars 22, suitably guided on the frame of the machine, these bars being connected to a transverse rod, 23, the ends of which are adapted to slots 24C in the upper ends of levers 25, hung to the shaft of the forward sprocket wheel, 8, and connected by means of rods 26 to eccentrics 27 on the shaft 17, the fingers pushing the staves before them on the forward movement of the slide-bars, but yielding so as to pass over the staves on the backward movement of said bars, the rearward movement of the staves being prevented by means of spring-clips 28, which consist of elastic plates carried by the upper portions of 0 the guides 1 and bent so that their convex faces project down from above into the guideslots, as shown in Fig. 1, and act upon the end portions of the staves to retain the same.

The staves delivered from the guides 1 onto 5 the bending-bed 3 are there subjected to the action of the bending-die 4, which is carried by a slide, 30, suitably guided in transverse bar, 31, of the frame and connected to one arm, 32, of atoggle, the other arm, 33, of which is hung to afixed pin on the frame. The arms of the toggle are connected by a rod, 34, to a crank, 35, on a short shaft, 36, adapted to suitable hearings on the side frame of the machine and drivenby means of bevel-wheels 37 and 38 from a vertical shaft, 39, which in turn is driven by bevel-gears 40 and 41 from the shaft 17. As the toggle-arms are drawn in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3, therefore, a powcrful downward pressure is imparted to the slide and its bending-die 4, the slide and (lie being lifted on the reverse movement. To the upper end of the slide is connected a chain, 42, which passes over pulleys 43 on the frame andis provided with a counterbalance-weight,

When the stave is placed on the bendingbed, its opposite ends are acted upon, and the stave is properly centered by spring-jaws 45, hung to the opposite side frames of the machine; but as the die 4 descends these jaws are separated and release the stave for the bending action of the die. As the die rises after bending the stave, the jaws 45 bear upon the top of the stave near each end, and by limiting the recoil of the stave determine the amoun of bend retained by the latter.

After the stave has been bent, it will, on the next forward movement of the slide-bars 22, be acted upon by the forward fingers, 21, of the same anddelivered from the bending-bed 3 into the guides 2 of the second feedway. These guides have overhanging plates carrying antifriction rollers 50, and the central bar, 10, of the feedway is also provided with anti-friction rollers 51, and is in a somewhat higher plane than the guides 2, to correspond with the curvature of the stave. It will thus be seen that as the stave is fed along it has a central bearing on the under side upon the rollers 51 of the central bar, 10, while the upper side of the stave, at and near each end, has its bearings upon the rollers 50' of the .end guides, 2, the stave being thus in its traverse along the feed way retained in its proper bent position without causing undue friction upon the bearingsfor necessitating the exercise of more than a moderate amount of power to feed the staves. This feeding of the staves is effected by means of a series of pivoted pusher-fingers, 54, hung to rods 55, extending transversely between opposite slide'bars 56, which are suitably guided on the side frames of the machine and are connected to the upper ends of pivoted arms 57, a transverse rod, 58, connecting these arms, and this rod being coupled by rods 59 to eccentrics 60 on the shaft 17. The first acting fingers of the frames 56 are hooked fingers 61, which serve to catch the stave on its delivery from the bending-bed 3 and draw it forward into position to be acted upon by the first of the pusher fingers 54, which feed it forward to the second fingers, and so on, the fingers passing over the staves on the backward movement.

Thestaves are delivered from the feedway into a barrel setting'up or forming machine of any suitable construction. The machine may, for instance, be of a character similar to the one forming the subject of application No. 225,328, dated January 24, 1887. When the proper number of staves have been fedinto this settingup machine, it is necessary to stop the operation of the feeding devices and other parts of the machinaand a like stoppage is necessary when a defective stave is delivered from the bending apparatus. For this reason we mount the spur-wheel 18 loosely on the shaft 17 and secure to said .shaft outside of the spur-wheel a disk, 62, which carries a clutch-finger, 63, acted on by a spring, 52, and engaging with a recess, 53, in the face of the spur-wheel 18, as shown in Fig. 4.

The outer end of the clutch-finger is beveled, and in a suitable bearing, 64, adjacent to the end of the finger, is adapted to slide a stop'rod, 65, havinga beveled head, 66. Under ordinary circumstances this head is withdrawn, as in Fig. 4, so as to be out of the path of the end of the clutch-finger 62; but when it is desired to stop the machine the rod is moved so as to bring its beveled head into the path of said stopfinger, which is thereby retraoted and withdrawn from the recess in the in the hub of the bevel-wheel 70 and can be raised and lowered by means of a suitable lever, 74, the latter being operated by the attendant or by one of the attendants in charge of the setting-up machine.

If desired, the central bearing-bar, 10, of the second feedway may be dispensed with; but in this case we prefer to provide the guides 2 with bearing-rollers 49 for the ends of the stave, as shown in Fig. 10, for instance.

WVe claim as our invention 1. The combination of stave-bending dies, a stave-feedway having opposite guides constructed to press upon the ends of the staves, and mechanism whereby the staves are fed from the bender to the guides and caused to traverse along the latter, all substantially as specified.

2. A stave-feedway in which are combined a central bar pressing upon one side of the stave at or near the middle and end bars pressing upon the opposite side of the stave at and near the ends of the same and having their bearing-surfaces in a different plane from that of the central bar, all substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the stave-bending dies, the fingered feed-bars, means for recip rocating the latter, and stave-guides constructed to press upon the staves as they are being fed forward, all substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the stave-bending die with springclips at the ends of the same for preventing undue recoil of the stave on the rise of the die, all substantially as specified.

5. The combination of a steam-box, a stavefeedway and endless feed-chain traversing said steam-box, a stave-receptacle, and means for conveying the staves from said receptacle to the feedway and chain, all substantially as specified.

6. The combination of the steam-box with the endless feed-chain and its sprocket-wheels, and a stave-feedway comprising upper and lower guides and curved connecting-guides concentric with the feed-chain at one end, all substantially as specified.

7. The combination of stave-bending dies, retainers for preventing undue recoil of the bent stave, a stave-feedway having bearings whereby the stave is held in bent form, and means for feeding the stave directly from the bending'dies into said stave-feedway, all substantially as specified.

8. The combination of a stave-feedway,- a

finger engaging said pinion, and a stoprod having a beveled head for engaging with said finger and moving it to disengage the pinion therefrom, all substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARIA E. BEASLEY. .GEO. BEHFUSS.

J. GEORGE REHFUSS. MARTIN O. REHFUSS.

XVitnesses:

JOHN T. LEWIS, HARRY SMITH. 

